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Howard Keziah › Comments
Capitalism's Fundamental Flaw - Forbes.com - http://www.forbes.com/2009...
"Rand's flaw? She assumed integrity is implicit in the characters of the "leaders." It isn't."
- Howard Keziah
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We Choose the Moon: Pre-launch - http://wechoosethemoon.org/
My most vivid childhood memory is of the moment we landed on the moon. I listened in awe as our greatest technological achievement unfolded. I was lucky to grow up with the moon program. It instilled in me the belief that we can accomplish anything if we dedicate ourselves to the task. I hope my grandchildren can experience something so grand.
- Howard Keziah
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My 2 sons asked me once what history experience that occurred during my life was most memorable. Answer: the 'moon landing/walk' & the JFK assignation when I was a kid. On the positive side, the "Moon" was special.
- john lensi
Unfortunately, I think my generations most vivid space memory is of the Challenger explosion. Since McAuliffe was on board, our school was making a huge deal of it prior to... and then everyone was obviously shocked after.
- jacksutherland
We were at the beach on July 20, 1969 and it was notable as the only vacation where my dad took a TV with us. (Old beach house, no AC or TV in St Augustine, FL!). One of those defining events in a lifetime.
- Gretchen Smith
And I don't think my girls understood why Dave and I were so thrilled to be in the VIP area at Cape Kennedy to see a shuttle launch, it was like a childhood dream. I can still remember the percussion of the launch and the awe of actually seeing it blastoff. Ironically it was the last successful launch of Challenger, about 6 months before the tragedy.
- Gretchen Smith
"If we can land a man on the moon, we can get people to upgrade from #IE6." I think John F. Kennedy said that.
- jacksutherland
I sure remember the Apollo program. I worked there when Apollo 1 blew up on the launch pad killing all of the astronauts. It was very sad and slowed down the program so that I missed working there for the moon landing.
- Gail Carter
I'll be honest. Apple's new Safari 4 really sucks. Freezes. Slow. So sad to see this from Apple. I'm not the only one, either.
Susan Beebe, Benny Fu, Andre P. Siregar and 27 other people liked this
Agree. It's very slow compared to Safari 3. But it's still beta?
- Håkan Dahlström
As much as I love my iMAC I've always preferred Firefox over Safari. Now, if Roboform would just port their software. 1Password just doesn't do the job.
- Brandon Hall
Is this based off the latest and greatest WebKit? If so, I'm really surprised.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Have not experienced those problems on a MacBook Air.
- Michael Osterman
It also causes other apps to stop working. I've gone back to Safari 3 on all of my macs.
- Sufian Siddiqi
I love Safari 3 on Windows.
- Alp
Isn´t it still beta ? People are spoiled because everyone through "beta" on every service and app for a while because it was hip. It really means not stable. Use a stable release (ie. 3) for critical work. Production releases from them are usually good.
- Thomas Bøhm
The tabs are really unusable.
- Ben
Have not tried it out. But is it really that bad!!
- Sujay
I can't think of anything Apple's made that's great in beta. Final release is always wonderful. Firefox betas may have spoiled us.
- Mike Lewis
I really don't like Safari 4's implementation of tabs. Apart from the fact that they shouldn't be on top, they go all the way to the top edge of the window, which means you will probably accidentally switch tabs while trying to move the window.
- Joey Gibson
To their credit they did make a little headway since 3.x on Windows. They can thank Google for showing them the way by making an instantly appealing and fast webkit browser.
- Adi
Never had a problem with it, I use it full time at home on a 3 year old MBP and my very old Dell PC
- Caspar Aremi
Firefox 3.5 Beta is IMHO faster than 3.0.x on a Mac. It would be great if Firefox would change from Gecko to WebKit.
- Waldemar Schott
I use it all the time without issue. Initially I didn't like the tabs but now really like the position. I can now have lots of tabs open without the crashing I experienced with Firefox. For a beta, it's working well for me.
- Howard Keziah
Perhaps Apple should stop working on browsers. I think that area of consumer computer use is well covered by people who really know what they're doing. We, as an internet, need another browser on the net like we need more trolls. Just my $.02. That and $4.48 gets you Starbucks.
- Dan Messer
Wondering if this is semi-intentional: Let's forget about the Web, folks, it's too unreliable, come to the App Store and buy that far more trustworthy MSM content.
- John Blossom
Agreed. It's driven me back to Firefox. And is it just me, or has there been a total lack of updates for Safari 4? Maybe we'll get them when 10.5.7 drops...
- Andy Bold
I agree, sucks. I prefer Chrome on the PC but like having my bookmarks synced between my PCs so I use Firefox on the Mac and on the PC a lot as well.
- Jim Graham
Yah Safari 4 is a major let down, and seems to screw up a LOT with flash based websites. Not impressed
- Angus Burton
Jim: are you using a plugin to keep your firefox bookmarks synced between your Mac and PC?
- Angus Burton
I actually disagree. I've been running the Beta since it came out and have now pretty much moved over to it full time. I usually run 3 windows, each with multiple tabs open all the time and it's been pretty stable and useable. It crashes every now and again, but with the Saft plugin, I get auto resume when I start it up again. Saft also gives you the option of moving the tabs back under the address bar. All in all, I've been very impressed with it.
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
I've noticed pages often seem to be endlessly loading, but they function OK. I've had a few freezes as well. The latest Webkit seems more stable, although whenever it crashes the next time I start up it says to get rid of the plug-ins. The only thing I have going is Gears, so I guess that's a problem. My Gmail offline features works though. I don't see the big speed drop from Safari 3, and the latest Firefox ends up hogging all my resources on my Powerbook, so I end up using Safari 4 a lot.
- Steve Wright
It beachballs for me consistently ...Safari 4 + Flash = Crash. Yes, that rhymes.
- Bwana ☠
Wonder if it's time for a "Plug-Ins" spring cleaning!!!! Go to /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ and nuke away!
- sean andersen
Safari 4 beta (with Flash turned off) hasn't crashed or hung for me yet in the last two months.
- Victor Ganata
I've only had a few crashes with Safari 4 with the Webkit nightlies. It's pretty much rock solid and I've been running it since it was released.
- Akiva Moskovitz
im waiting for chrome on the linux....
- Chris Jackson
Funny, I was having so many problems with FireFox 3 I switched to Safari 4 and have been happy as a clam.
- ChiliMac
You can download it again now, it´s updated (you´ll have to upgrade the OS to 10.5.7 first too).
- Thomas Bøhm
I find it to be very fast when its working but it does hang and freeze too often, especially on the "top site" view.
- Justin Luey
I like how it randomly decides not to load a web page now and then. It's as if Safari 4 knows when I need a break.
- Gunny Wallen
Yeah, it really doesn't like flash either.
- Drew Lucas
@Drew - Safari 4 + Flash sent me on a long arduous round trip of testing other browsers for OS X, and I've ended up back at Firefox. :-/
- Andy Bold
Yeah I mean, it hangs up every 5 minutes or so, on simple small embeds! *sigh*
- Drew Lucas
Flash remains a problem. Other than that Safari 4 Beta with Webkit is running fine for me.
- Peter Kruit
Maybe that's why Safari 4 Webkit runs so well for me: I avoid Flash like I avoid shooting myself in the face with a bazooka.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva LOL
- Andy Bold
No kidding. What's up with that - I use Apple products cuz they rawk, if I wanted something to suck I'd go back to a PC and use MSFT products
- Mary McKnight
Mary, something tells me you just really love those I'm a Mac/I'm a PC ads.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What do you think of it now?
- Byron McCollum
Keep in mind. That was Beta.
- Drew Lucas
from email
I'm using Safari 4 on Windows 7 and it's great - really, really flies, even compared to Chrome. And no crashes so far!
- Ian Betteridge
Safari 4 seems to be running much smoother compared to Chrome and Mozilla Firefox on my system. In fact, I've already configured Safari 4 to be my new default Web browser!
- Thomas Ward
Funny my experience has been positive. On the PC it runs well and is fast. I wasn't expecting much, now I may use it as much as Google Chrome, we'll see.
- John Hardy
CardStar - iPhone personal card manager - http://www.mycardstar.com/
I am so glad to get all those cards out of my wallet
- Howard Keziah
from Bookmarklet
Kids with ADHD need to fidget, study says - http://www.physorg.com/news162...
I can say from first hand experience, this applies to grown kids as well.
- Howard Keziah
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Special interests have ramped up their fear mongering in an attempt to derail health care reform. - http://blog.ifawebnews.com/group-l...
As counter to his article, read http://www.scienceblog.com/cms...
- Howard Keziah
Survey: Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
"More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often" or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who "seldom or never" go to services agreed, according to the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life."
- Howard Keziah
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Tips for Real Time Web working on new friendfeed - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Craig Brownell, Philip Lei, Rafael and 23 other people liked this
This is neat and all, but the comments are still hard as f**k to read since they're #737373, I mean, c'mon! #990000 at least. Sheesh.
- Enrique Gutierrez
Thank you !!!
- Susan Beebe
I agree that turning up the contrast on comments might be a good design move ;-). That put aside, the new look is amazing!
- Xavier
I also agree with Enrique. I also don't like the text I'm reading to jump out from under me.
- Howard Keziah
completely agree. the grey comments sucked hard from the beginning. at least make it customizable!
- nondual
What do you think about the new Friendfeed User Interface? Check this Poll: http://is.gd/r1DI
- Yaron Orenstein
agreed on comment color -"real time update" can be too fast even on a single comment stream -this speed may be better configurable?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Wrong Tomorrow - pundits vs. time - http://wrongtomorrow.com/
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It keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures.
- Howard Keziah
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Monitor the records of experts and pundits as a public service? - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Gretchen Smith liked this
"The predictions of experts were, on average, only a tiny bit better than random guesses — the equivalent of a chimpanzee throwing darts at a board."
- Howard Keziah
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I like the rats that beat the Yale students in figuring out the mazes
- Gretchen Smith
Sleep Habits and Susceptibility to the Common Cold - http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi...
Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) liked this
"Poorer sleep efficiency and shorter sleep duration in the weeks preceding exposure to a rhinovirus were associated with lower resistance to illness."
- Howard Keziah
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Our nation's infrastructure is in really bad shape. - http://www.asce.org/reportc...
Why should we put tax cuts in the stimulus plan when our infrastructure problems are this bad?
- Howard Keziah
Read "Founding Mothers" by Cokie Roberts - then look at where our history books have educated us on what to do...
- Heather Vaartjes
Like a Guest That Won't Leave, BPA Lingers in the Human Body: Scientific American - http://www.sciam.com/article...
FDA and EPA still maintain that BPA is safe
- Howard Keziah
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Regular sprints boost metabolism... Hey, I can do that! - http://www.physorg.com/news152...
"What we have found is that doing a few intense muscle exercises, each lasting only about 30 seconds, dramatically improves your metabolism in just two weeks.""
- Howard Keziah
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Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused by His Presidency - http://www.theonion.com/content...
Paul Whitaker, Mona Nomura, Anika and Howard Keziah liked this
This made my day.
- Howard Keziah
What a lame keynote. Apple is losing its mojo.
Malte Steckmeister, @jessewright, Timo Heuer and 43 other people liked this
I agree with you Steve
- Jason
This is why they opted out of MacWorld. They should hold events when they have products ready, not on a set schedule of a convention.
- Rolf Schewe
Since I'm not tracking any of this...lack of cool announcements? Or lack of Steve Jobs mystique?
- Hutch Carpenter
Welll.... duh. :-) Nobody expected a big deal, did they? They are moving their big announcements elsewhere.
- Louis Gray
Louis, no Mac Mini or Apple TV? Cmon!
- Steve Rubel
from IM
The sky is falling!!!
- Bwana ☠
It's gotten to the point where if Steve Jobs doesn't fly in with a cape and announce the iTime Machine, Apple has FAIL-ed. I am glad they are done with MacWorld.
- Rolf Schewe
Every keynote is a disappointment if your expectations are set way too high. This is actually what I expected... I still think we're going to see a speed bump on the mac minis soon
- Bwana ☠
Rolf: Nail.On.Head
- Matthew DeVries
The iLife announcements got me excited, at least!
- Andy DeSoto
@Chris: I agree. The product cycles have to better coincide with the business/consumer buying cycles. MacWorld was like Christmas shopping in January. Made no sense.
- Rolf Schewe
I hate to tell you guys, but Apple's innovation run is over for now. Innovator's dillema.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
it takes time to build great products - it's a bit unfair to expect a bang every 6 months!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
There's been nothing breakthrough out of Apple since the iPhone debut two years ago. Even the app store is the work of the development community.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Cristo, Google is innovating like crazy. And, to be fair, so is HP, Lenovo and Nintendo. (Note HP is a client)
- Steve Rubel
from IM
@Cristo Look at Gmail Labs or Google Docs. Tons of innovation
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Who needs mojo when you got one of the slickest marketing shops around.
- Alex Scoble
Paint drying keynote.
- Ian D. Nock
Even Leopard didn't have the same rate of innovation that Tiger did. Look, I am a huge Apple fan. Ask anyone. But look under the hood beyond RDF and you will see what I mean
- Steve Rubel
from IM
I would expect to see more frequent updates from Apple, rather than the big two we've historically seen. Especially now, it will be a way for Apple to get more attention on the rest of the management team.
- LogEx
Apples (no pun intended) and oranges. You can't compare Google and Apple on these merits. Their only overlap is with Android. I see big things from Snow Leopard with Grand Central and Open CL regarding performance and efficient use of system resources. The keynote is what was expected. Anything else was fantasy.
- Rolf Schewe
Christo, I agree - they're not behind. But they are vulnerable.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
one lame keynote does not a mojo losing company make
- Steve Mann
from twhirl
Vulnerable to what? Windows 7, which is Vista Plus? Blackberry Storm? Netbooks? I don't want a "cheap" laptop. Zune? iTunes just made a huge power move. Don't see it. I see the opposite. Next year, at non-MacWorld events, we will see a ton of new products. New iPhones, Mac Pros, Next-gen Apple TV, etc., etc.
- Rolf Schewe
@Rolfe Vulnerable to missing the big turn. iLife wont be necessary soon. Web apps are the future and Apple is notoriously weak here. Two words: Mobile Me.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
So iWork.com is a flop?
- Bwana ☠
I think MobileMe is vaporware in it's current manifestation. It was DOA. I agree with Google
- Rolf Schewe
Bwana, I thought so, yes. Will you stop using Google Docs (assuming you do)? Plus there's no iPhone access - that I saw. They should stick to hw/sw not web apps.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Cristo, do you use any web apps? Flickr? Photoshop.com? That's where the innovation is today (Note Adobe is a client)
- Steve Rubel
from IM
.mac--lame. MobileMe--lame. By association: iWork.com--lame.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I don't think web apps will reach mass adoption in 2009 and I believe Apple is making the right choices. With that said, I will reserve judgement on iwork.com and the other offerings until I use them. Overall, I think we're overreacting here.
- Bwana ☠
Bwana, it's the Internet, are you new here? It's millions of miles of interconnected fiber, copper, silicon, and electrons with the soul use of pornography and over-reacting to things.
- Matthew DeVries
I think MobileMe is vaporware in it's current manifestation. It was DOA. I agree on your online apps point. Google is making a lot of headway. Not sure how it will pan out in the long-run. Xbox 360 has made some interesting inroads to the living room while all this is going on. I don't know what the future holds. Tech-centic people like ourselves will not determine the future. Regular people will.
- Rolf Schewe
I think iWork.com is on the right track, although I'm not a fan of charging for the service. I still don't have web access on most of my flights or bus rides and still have to pay for it at a good portion of hotels and airports. I want to edit and store on my machine first and foremost.
- Greg
I liked what I saw. Improvements to products I use and can afford. What did you expect? No wonder Apple is pulling out of MacWorld. The level of expectation is absurd.
- Howard Keziah
I don't like how there isn't an upgrade price option for iWork 09. All the major software has an upgrade price, this should be no different. Granted its not expensive compared to FCP, there should still be some benefit to being a previous customer.
- Justin Wah Kan
I'm ok with price structures adjusting to that upgraders pay more while new adopters pay less. One price to rule them all.
- Matthew DeVries
Look, I'm typing this on my new Macbook with an iPhone few inches away, but I honestly believe that Anti-Social MobileMe is just a wrong direction, lack of vision if you prefer. I can't see anybody who regularly use modern social media be a user of MobileMe. The only good thing about that service is a Push, but for how long? Better yet, they launched iWork.com which makes even less sense to me (can't edit docs online, but only share them with, if you're lucky, 2-3 people you know who has iWork09).
- Dias
I'm not sure why MobileMe gets compared to social media. As far as I can see, social media is about facilitating global conversation. MobileMe does nothing in that area, and is instead about providing convenience for people who have more than one mac. I have two of my own, and have at various times had a third one at my workplace, and it's been very useful in that context. It is quite flawed, but as yet there isn't a real alternative.
- Robin Barooah
And as far as innovation is concerned. I think the battery improvements will make a huge difference as they roll them out across the line (once people have got over complaining about them), and will be tricky for competitors to counter. Also, I've tried iWork.com. It works smoothly, and is immediately obvious for a newcomer to understand, unlike google docs. And after that poor launch of MobileMe, I imagine they want to underpromise and overdeliver.
- Robin Barooah
Still waiting for MobileUs!
- Scott Loftesness
Steve, this meme is right up there with "John McCain just won the election" when he announced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Apple's model of innovation isn't to be the first, it's to evaluate emerging markets and figure out how to best to dominate them. Outside of email, name one area where apps in the cloud outsell desktop apps. Eventually, that may start to change and you can bet Apple will be there with something that changes the game.
- Kevin Pedraja
@Kevin I can't be right all the time. That would make me - Obama!
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Great thread. I expected little from this Macworld, and got a little more than I expected. Overall, I'm satisfied. (Except for the fact that I don't actually *have* the new MacBook Pro on my desk at the moment.) Steve, you say Apple hasn't innovated much in two years, since the iPhone. First off, I disagree -- the App Store was brilliant. But even if you're right, what big innovation did they have between the iPod and iPhone? iPod video maybe. IOW, going 2+ years between major innovations is nothing new.
- Mitch Wagner
The thinnest 17-inch laptop and extended battery were good new innovations to me. It would be cool if Apple did actually show the MacBook Wheel!!!!
- Alvin
Every time Apple doesn't live up to the completely over-inflated blogosphere expectations, everyone says Apple has lost its mojo. I've been watching Apple lose its mojo for about three years now, by my count.
- Jeff Ventura
I liked the MacBook Wheel announcement better.
- Nick Humphries
Still, most brands would want even half Apple's mojo!
- Joe Buhler
True. Quite disappointed about the lack of Mac Mini news, after all that pre-Keynote noise...
- Jordi Soler
@SteveRubel There's one big flaw in your pov: you are in the 10%, maybe 1% of the leading edge on using tech, talking to the rest of the leading 10%. 90% of the world is yet to grasp, buy and use this. In an effort to be way out in front, it is easy to forget Apple is designing for millions, not the futuristic 1% who act like 3g iPhones are from the 1950's.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
I disagree. If the trend holds for online videos popularity, the iMovie improvements coupled with affordable HD camcorders could be the sleeper hit from this year's keynote.
- Brandon Mendelson
"Someone needs to post an automated communications magic 8 ball, where you enter everything you have to say, shake it, and it decides where to post it."
From my daughter as she struggles with all the social media choices.
- Howard Keziah
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